Plato and Greek Prose (GK 390)

Syllabus (Fall 2008)

Week 1    Orientation (Aug. 27-9)

Week 2-3     Courts and Speechwriters: judicial speeches (Sep. 3-12)
    Antiphon 3: Second Tetralogy
    Lysias 31: Against Philo

Week 4-5    Plato on Rhetoric: Socrates and Gorgias (Sep. 15-26)
    Gorgias 447-66
    Test #1: M Sep. 29

Week 6-7    Sophistic Display: epideictic speeches (Oct. 1-10)
    Gorgias fr. 11: Helen
    Anonymous Hippocratic: On Expertise

Week 8-9    Plato on the Soul: Socrates, Polus, and Callicles (Oct. 13-24)
    Gorgias 469-94
    Test #2: M Oct. 27

Week 10-12    Political Oratory: deliberative speeches (Oct. 29-Nov. 14)
    Thucydides 3.35-50: Mytilenean debate
    Isocrates 7: Areopagiticus

Week 13-14    The Compleat Orator (Nov. 17-26)
    Demosthenes 54: Against Conon – and/or some of Demosthenes 18: On the Crown  

Week 15    Grand Finale: the last judgment (Dec. 1-5)
    Gorgias 515-27

Final exam: Thursday, Dec. 11, 2-5 p.m.